It's a real burden being right so often.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR  

[NAFDA] This is where we talk about the show! Anything that's aired in the US (including promos) is fair game. No spoilers though -- if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it.


Kathy A - Feb 10, 2005 9:51:31 am PST #5892 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I suppose you could chalk it up to island magic or Charlie doing all his sweating and vomiting offscreen, but it doesn't make me entirely happy. It feels lazy.

In an interview, Dom sort of handwaved this and said that the show is on a Disney network during the old "family hour," so he thinks that the producers decided to really tone it down.


Jessica - Feb 10, 2005 9:54:13 am PST #5893 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Come on, Jessica. He's got aspirin.

Oh, right! Well, nevermind then.


Nutty - Feb 10, 2005 9:56:18 am PST #5894 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Aren't we here on an island where improbable things seem to happen when people really want something? I've found myself a new wank.

I think this is the wank to end all wanks. Henceforth, all shows with complicated plots will take place on semi-mystical islands in the Pacific Ocean. (Or Hell, whichever is cheaper.)


Steph L. - Feb 10, 2005 10:04:26 am PST #5895 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

In an interview, Dom sort of handwaved this and said that the show is on a Disney network during the old "family hour," so he thinks that the producers decided to really tone it down.

Okay, but -- dude sucked into the jet engine in the first 10 minutes? "Family hour"?


Scrappy - Feb 10, 2005 10:08:47 am PST #5896 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I think it's because we've seen withdrawal a zillion times and they just didn't want to have to try to make endless, sweating, puking, scratching scenes dramatically interesting. I heard people audibly sighing when the withdrawal montage started in Ray.


Jessica - Feb 10, 2005 10:37:29 am PST #5897 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think it's because we've seen withdrawal a zillion times and they just didn't want to have to try to make endless, sweating, puking, scratching scenes dramatically interesting.

What I don't like is ignoring it on the island, but putting in the flashback when it's convenient for dramatic reasons. Have withdrawal or don't, but make it consistent.


Laura - Feb 10, 2005 11:04:31 am PST #5898 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.

I'm wanking Charlie's shooting skills to hysterical accuracy, related to hysterical strength.

The withdrawal wasn't so harsh because he had been weaning himself since the crash, and perhaps before the crash.

got lots of wanks, get yer wanks here


Frankenbuddha - Feb 10, 2005 11:07:34 am PST #5899 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

got lots of wanks, get yer wanks here

Hmm. Cindy used to be queen of the wank. I think we're going to need a wank off.

So to speak.


§ ita § - Feb 10, 2005 11:07:52 am PST #5900 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From IMDB:

According to the upcoming DisneyWar book by James Stewart, both Disney CEO Michael Eisner and President Robert Iger were dubious that the series Lost, which had been championed by ABC Entertainment Television Group Chairman Lloyd Braun, would draw an audience. Iger originally called the series "a waste of time," adding, "It might work as a miniseries, but not as a series." According to the book, Braun defied Iger's "clear invitation" to kill it. Later Eisner asked Braun, "What have you picked up?" When he described Lost, Eisner reportedly frowned, then said, "That's never going to work." Even after its successful premiere (and after Braun had been fired), Lost continued to be damned by Eisner, who told Stewart, "Lost is terrible. ... The pilot was two hours; it was broken into two one-hour episodes. Then the show goes off a cliff. There's no more plane crash! Who cares about these people on a desert island?" Lost is currently ABC's second most popular TV series, behind Desperate Housewives. On Wednesday, it dominated the 8:00 p.m. hour, scoring an 11.6 rating and an 18 share, well above second-place CBS's 7.3/11 (60 Minutes Wednesday).


le nubian - Feb 10, 2005 11:26:54 am PST #5901 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

What an asshole.